Illuminated safety-bracket for automobiles.



CHASLLQS N. WAGHER. 0F KNXVZLE, ELLINOS.

"tlf UNATEB SAFETY-BRACKET FR .UTQMOB'LE Application filed February 1916.

To @ZZ 'w/liomf may con lern:

Be it known. that l. tli'iannns N. llllionnn, a. citizen of the United States, aiul a resilent of Knoxville7 in the County ot Knox and State of lllinois7 have invented a new and useful llluininatcd Safetv-Brackct 'for Automobiles, of which the following is a specilication. lily invention relates to di vices attachahle to automobiles 'for the pui pose of holding;7 illuminating., anil locking the number-plate.

lt is a well known fact that owing to the ease and rcaflincsf,v with which thc nuniherplate may ordinarily be letacheil from an automobile and a false one substituted therelor, many crimes have hec-n successfully car-- rierl out.

ln View of this one of the inain object@` ol in v invention is to vpi'ovirle a novel illuininatctl, Seal-locked franic or bracket into which a. number-plate, may with facility placed or lroin which it may with equal facility he reinovcrh but not without breakage ol" the seal the latter causing detection ot tho criminal.

Ainothcr olojcct Vis to proiiclc novel .neans, entering into the construction ot the bracket. 'for yieldingly or resiliently holding the number-plate in place and from breakage.

Still another ohjeot is to provide a iran parent or gemiti-:inegirent number-plate adapted because thereof to operate. in harniony with an electric lanip or other light in rear thereof.

Still another object consists in providing for thc escape of any water which might collect within the bracket or Ytraine leeetioue or parts.

lilinor objects will presentlyv appear. Home of these will he obvious and others particularly pointed out.

ln the accompanying drawings. which illustrate a preferred embodiment olE inv invention, Figure l is a rear elevation, showing my improvements as attached to an or (linary forni ot uuml)er-platcarrying projeetion troni the. rear euri ol'` an autoinohile.; Dig. 2, a perspective thereof, somewhat relluced in size, and the number-plato renioveil; Fig. 3, an enlarged cnil View. seen in thc plano ol` the. line 25-3 in Fig. l; and Fig. il, a tranevereo Section, taken in thc plano ol thc line lY l in Fig'. l.

(lonaitlcrinrg the drawings; in ile'tail ainl referring; io the elemente lier/soi' uuincr als., er h of: :which uniformly emploi/e5.,

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Serial No. 76,535.

2 indicates a fragment of a rear nuniloei plate-carrying projection or arin of an autoinoiile7 provided with slots 8. 3.

el, l indicate liracket-supporting arnis providetl each with a slot 5. the adjacent pairs ot Slots 3 and 5 adapted to register. il, 6 indicate holte paeseil eaeh through a regie;- tering,- pair of saiil slots, anil T. T Cleeig'nate nuts7 one on each of saiil bolts. 'for an evilent purpose.

8 indicates thc hack of nivY iinproverl. bracket Q-the worfl hack just used. being` indicative of the Cletachecl bracket hut not of the bracket when it is applied to the ear. l prefer to construct the main elenionts of the i'ranio of saifl bracket roin a single piece of sheet metal., of which l0 is the bottoni7 il an open or Skeleton front7 anni l)` a. top having,r lip 13 overlying the upper edge of eaicl front.

147.13% designate t'ic ends, the latter .so curecl to each of the portions 8, 10, ll., il@ anti 13, but the t'oriner to the portions 8, l() and 1Q only. The back 8 is secured to the arms 4i hy rivets l5 or in any other `suitable manner.

16 designates a strip of felt or other yielcling material secure-:l in any suitable manner along the angle formed hy the hack 8 anti top l2. Extenriinf from enel to end, (14, ly) l place a preferahljv7 resilient metallic guide-strip i7, secured to the bottoni l@ as h v rircts 1S. proviilccl with a longitudinallgr arranged shoulder 19 and affording, to-I gcther with the. lower edge of the front ll7 a channel Q0, through which latter any rater passing over the nuinhenplate 2l (presently more tally described) and running; ,il inav ably ol'l nature,

escapo. Saul plate Q1 is prefera transparent or Senn-transparent as. tor instance. ot' glass upon which may he painted or Stained, or of metal through which openings iraiT he cut. or of any other material wherebyy in` any manner may he ilis'ilayeil any symbol, signor chan aeter rleeirerlfthcse of Course depending upon circumstances-in order that any suitahlc illuminating agent, Such as an electric lanip QQ. may cause light to penetrate the plate. The plate preferablyy rests upon the shoulder 19 of the Strip i? and its lower edge is hohl yielrlingzly and resilientlj,7 thereiy against the. lower i the iront ll.

hetween the latter and said front portion of said front l1. The lower edge of the-plate is therefore adapted to slide between theguide 17 and 'the lower portions of the front l1 and its upper edge to slide between the-guide-strip 16 and the upper portions o said front, as indicated in Fig. 1, and it is of such length that when pushed into the position shown by full lines in said figure a seal-pin 23 which passes through registering apertures in the back 8 and front l1 may be positioned as just recited and as shown best in Fig. 3, to lock said plate in place. Any character of seal, such as a carseal 24, may be employed to engage the sealpin 23.

It has not been thought either necessary or best to encumber this specification and drawings With descriptions and illustrations of modifications which are neither essential to nor form any part of the invention herein L50 claimed. In fact, it is apparent Without.

such that numerous details in the details of construction Will present themselves to any skilled mechanic. y Therefore, without limiting myself to precise details I claim as new the followlng, to-Wit:

In a device of the nature described, a

frame including a back, an open front, and 

